Mobile Learning Research: the Focus for Policy-Makers

Mobile learning has moved in the last decade from being a small, scattered research interest to being viewed by many international agencies as a way of delivering their humanitarian missions to the developing contexts of the global South. This paper explores and documents fundamental concepts a...

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Autor principal:	John Traxler
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Commonwealth of Learning 2016
Materias:	mobile learning research developing countries policy-makers Theory and practice of education LB5-3640
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/c28d5fe3caa8458e9a87e56c86ddd090
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c28d5fe3caa8458e9a87e56c86ddd0902021-12-03T21:28:30ZMobile Learning Research: the Focus for Policy-Makers2311-1550https://doaj.org/article/c28d5fe3caa8458e9a87e56c86ddd0902016-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/150https://doaj.org/toc/2311-1550Mobile learning has moved in the last decade from being a small, scattered research interest to being viewed by many international agencies as a way of delivering their humanitarian missions to the developing contexts of the global South. This paper explores and documents fundamental concepts and concerns that characterize or perhaps jeopardise the relationships between the ‘old’ research communities and ‘new’ policy maker communities working to improve the nature and scope of learning in the developing contexts of the global South using personal mobile digital technologies. As becomes apparent, these concepts and concerns are relevant and interesting across a broader range of domains, touching perhaps under-privilege and access to education and technology in both the global North and the global South, the uses of technology to extend, enhance and transform learning and the various pressures and determinants of policy-making and of the public funding of research. John TraxlerCommonwealth of Learningarticlemobile learningresearchdeveloping countriespolicy-makersTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENJournal of Learning for Development, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 7-25 (2016)
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description	Mobile learning has moved in the last decade from being a small, scattered research interest to being viewed by many international agencies as a way of delivering their humanitarian missions to the developing contexts of the global South. This paper explores and documents fundamental concepts and concerns that characterize or perhaps jeopardise the relationships between the ‘old’ research communities and ‘new’ policy maker communities working to improve the nature and scope of learning in the developing contexts of the global South using personal mobile digital technologies. As becomes apparent, these concepts and concerns are relevant and interesting across a broader range of domains, touching perhaps under-privilege and access to education and technology in both the global North and the global South, the uses of technology to extend, enhance and transform learning and the various pressures and determinants of policy-making and of the public funding of research.
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Mobile Learning Research: the Focus for Policy-Makers

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